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soprano54 WOI


Number of posts : 168 Age : 64 Localisation : Gloucestershire Cap Badge : RTR Places Served : Fallingbostel, Tidworth, Paderborn, Cyprus, Bovington, Hemer, NI, Coltishall, Incirlik, Benson Registration date : 2007-03-10
 | Subject: Barracks identity! 20/1/2017, 14:52 | |
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|  | | alan8376 Brig

Number of posts : 684 Age : 75 Localisation : Norfolk, UK Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Carlisle AAS, Aden, Hildesheim, Bordon, Fallingbostel, Dover, NI Tours, Osnabruck, Herford, Muenster, UN Nicosia, SBA Dhekellia Cyprus x2, Waterbeach, Civi Street 1988. Retired from VOSA 2007. Registration date : 2009-07-28
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 21/1/2017, 09:34 | |
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|  | | soprano54 WOI


Number of posts : 168 Age : 64 Localisation : Gloucestershire Cap Badge : RTR Places Served : Fallingbostel, Tidworth, Paderborn, Cyprus, Bovington, Hemer, NI, Coltishall, Incirlik, Benson Registration date : 2007-03-10
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 21/1/2017, 14:19 | |
| - alan8376 wrote:
- Is the tank a Conquer?
The one on it's own is a Conquerer yes, the others are Centurions! | |
|  | | JPW Let Gen

Number of posts : 1119 Age : 81 Localisation : Berkshire Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Rotenburg Ploen Lippstadt Hamm Wetter Minden Munster Bielefeldt Dusseldorf Registration date : 2008-11-09
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 22/1/2017, 17:52 | |
| Think we can discount Cromwell Barracks Hamm, there would have been ANTARS or equivalent on show
Think this is a Tank Park of a working Armoured Regiment located in a Hitler era build barracks. We can therefore discount the Loddenheide complex at Munster and the Dodesheide complex at Osnabruck and Barker Barracks Paderborn. which is still in use.
One of our Ironside callsigns must recall which Regiments were equiped with Centurions with a Conqueror troop in each Sabre Squadron in the 1960s. | |
|  | | soprano54 WOI


Number of posts : 168 Age : 64 Localisation : Gloucestershire Cap Badge : RTR Places Served : Fallingbostel, Tidworth, Paderborn, Cyprus, Bovington, Hemer, NI, Coltishall, Incirlik, Benson Registration date : 2007-03-10
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 22/1/2017, 18:27 | |
| - JPW wrote:
- Think we can discount Cromwell Barracks Hamm, there would have been ANTARS or equivalent on show
Think this is a Tank Park of a working Armoured Regiment located in a Hitler era build barracks. We can therefore discount the Loddenheide complex at Munster and the Dodesheide complex at Osnabruck and Barker Barracks Paderborn. which is still in use.
One of our Ironside callsigns must recall which Regiments were equiped with Centurions with a Conqueror troop in each Sabre Squadron in the 1960s. All them were ISTR! | |
|  | | BobG Lt Col

Number of posts : 330 Age : 84 Localisation : Northumberland Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Rotenburg, Verden, Liebenau, Hohne, Hamm, Duisburg, Minden, Hannover, Fallingbostal, Kuwait, UK, HK, USA/Can. Registration date : 2008-02-27
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 22/1/2017, 19:12 | |
| I was ASM of 617 Tk Tptr Wksp and the photos are just as I remember Cromwell Bks, Hamm. The photos could have been taken about the time when Cents and Conqs were being replaced by Chieftains. 2 ADS had limited hanger space which would have been used for the Chieftains for security reasons and the old tanks parked up on part of the veh park before back loading to UK. The full sqn of Antars only took up half of the available parking space. | |
|  | | JPW Let Gen

Number of posts : 1119 Age : 81 Localisation : Berkshire Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Rotenburg Ploen Lippstadt Hamm Wetter Minden Munster Bielefeldt Dusseldorf Registration date : 2008-11-09
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 22/1/2017, 19:22 | |
| I am not going to argue with my good friend Bob G, particularly as many years experience taught me that you annoy your REME ASM at your peril (and this applies equally to all capbadges) | |
|  | | soprano54 WOI


Number of posts : 168 Age : 64 Localisation : Gloucestershire Cap Badge : RTR Places Served : Fallingbostel, Tidworth, Paderborn, Cyprus, Bovington, Hemer, NI, Coltishall, Incirlik, Benson Registration date : 2007-03-10
 | |  | | steve LE Maj


Number of posts : 961 Age : 74 Localisation : near Cuxhaven Cap Badge : Royal Signals + Royal Engineers Places Served : Verden-Aller + Willich + Iserlohn + Hameln Registration date : 2010-02-14
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 22/1/2017, 21:17 | |
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|  | | JPW Let Gen

Number of posts : 1119 Age : 81 Localisation : Berkshire Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Rotenburg Ploen Lippstadt Hamm Wetter Minden Munster Bielefeldt Dusseldorf Registration date : 2008-11-09
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 22/1/2017, 21:46 | |
| It's Bob G who is the expert on Cromwell Barracks, I was a spotty teenage schoolboy when I lived in Hamm briefly in the mid 1950s (my father was based elsewhere in the town in Newcastle Barracks) | |
|  | | soprano54 WOI


Number of posts : 168 Age : 64 Localisation : Gloucestershire Cap Badge : RTR Places Served : Fallingbostel, Tidworth, Paderborn, Cyprus, Bovington, Hemer, NI, Coltishall, Incirlik, Benson Registration date : 2007-03-10
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 22/1/2017, 22:13 | |
| - JPW wrote:
- It's Bob G who is the expert on Cromwell Barracks, I was a spotty teenage schoolboy when I lived in Hamm briefly in the mid 1950s (my father was based elsewhere in the town in Newcastle Barracks)
Sorted! | |
|  | | alan8376 Brig

Number of posts : 684 Age : 75 Localisation : Norfolk, UK Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Carlisle AAS, Aden, Hildesheim, Bordon, Fallingbostel, Dover, NI Tours, Osnabruck, Herford, Muenster, UN Nicosia, SBA Dhekellia Cyprus x2, Waterbeach, Civi Street 1988. Retired from VOSA 2007. Registration date : 2009-07-28
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 23/1/2017, 08:55 | |
| Now for the $100000 question! Who is the guy wearing glasses? | |
|  | | mike1222 Private

Number of posts : 1 Age : 76 Registration date : 2020-02-07
 | Subject: Re: Barracks identity! 7/2/2020, 19:23 | |
| - alan8376 wrote:
- Now for the $100000 question! Who is the guy wearing glasses?
Probably a few years too late, but for anyone who is interested, the civvy in the two photos is a German electrician, Bill Holscher(sp?). Used to smoke a stinking pipe!! I was with 2 ADS from 1969 - 73, and for anyone interested, I've got a photo somewhere of us (Germans, MOJOs and Brits) on a "jolly" to the VW factory in Wolfsburg(?) and Herr Holscher is in plain sight. | |
|  | | barrysturgeon LCpl

Number of posts : 5 Age : 83 Localisation : Sheuen/Celle Cap Badge : Corporal RAOC Places Served : Ironside Barracks Scheuen Registration date : 2019-05-20
 | Subject: General 17/2/2021, 18:06 | |
| My name is Barry Sturgeon I served in Germany doing my national service. Spent my time apart from basic trying in Portsmouth at Ironside Barracks with 7OFP. Always looked for some one that may have saved there. Would love to hear from you. Barry | |
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